The June Science Fiction Book Club mailing is out now. The main selections are:
The Last Colony by John Scalzi: the third in his loose trilogy with Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades, in which our heroes lead a new colony and much more of the background is revealed.
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss: a great debut fantasy novel about the life story of a very interesting character with a compelling voice.
This month’s alternate selections are:
Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold: SFBC’s “50th Anniversary Collection” continues with this gripping Hugo Award-winning entry in the “Vorkosigan” series.
Best Short Novels: 2007 edited by Jonathan Strahan
Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen: beginning a new alternate-historical World War II series by the authors of Gettysburg.
Wizard Under Fire by Jim Butcher; SFBC’s fourth omnibus collecting the “Dresden Files” contemporary fantasy series includes Proven Guilty and the brand-new novel White Night.
A Fate Worse than Dragons by John Moore: the newest funny fantasy from a modern master, with brave knights boldly searching for dragons to be slain, princesses to be saved, and toast to be buttered.
The Dream-Hunter by Sherrilyn Kenyon: a new book in a spin-off from her “Dark Hunter” series.
Sword of the Deceiver by Sarah Zettel: a new tale of Isavalta.
They’ve also got two books from further afield:
How to Cheat at Everything by Simon Lovell
Scourge of the Seas by Angus Konstam: a history of pirates.